When the forum mods are online, they do a brilliant job of taking care of trolls. And even with more forum mods, there would still be times when there just aren't any mods online. It wouldn't really change anything.
" When the forum mods are online, they do a brilliant job of taking care of trolls. And even with more forum mods, there would still be times when there just aren't any mods online. It wouldn't really change anything. "
I think that having more mods from different area's of the world would help this a little due to time zones, but that's all I can really think of. Even though the mods are pretty spread out as is.
EDIT: plus as long as we don't get trolls as bad as this kid, I think we'll be good for a while, since when the mods are online they do a great job of taking care of buisiness
@MattyFTM: True. You mods do a great job and all but there was one stage when the mods went offline the trolls came out. It's best to ignore them but some people think it's just neccessary to respond negatively to one. I just thought an extra mod might be a little help but everything seems ok for now.
@CL60: As long as we don't bring gender into this I think we'll be fine. I'm sick of hearing of it.
It seems like the mods are aware of what happens on these boards. IMO, the mods just need to be more strict with things like trolling. Don't let it linger on, hoping that the thread just dies off. Cut it quick and use the ban-hammer if it occurs frequently.
" Yes, but there has already been a very long thread about this. So this is not really necessary. "
Really? I either didn't notice it or couldn't remember it, nothing turned up in the search. My bad. "
Probably because it was locked a few weeks or so ago. Honestly, I don't think we need more moderators. We have a good group, and the only time you don't see them on is when it's a bad time for everyone (i.e. extremely early in the morning), where everyone is either sleeping, or about to wake up. Adding more forum moderators isn't going to close that gap in the no-activity at night, because hardly anyone (excluding trolls) is on that late.
maybe, i'm not to sure on that. mods have other things to do then to be on a website. i don't see to many trolls on the site maybe once or twice a week that's about it.
Most of the time there's one of us around keeping an eye out - if you think we've missed something, you can really help by PMing us (see the PM All links here) .
As for more mods, we're always considering it and keeping an eye out - we do have plans that should help increase the amount of eyes on the forum at any one time.
" @RipTheVeins: Please tell me that that was a joke "
@rjayb89 said:
" @RipTheVeins: That kid needs to die, seriously. "
Trust me, that kid's a professional troll. He said that Street Fighter 4 has the worst graphics he's ever seen and that the controls are "stupid." I shit you not.
" More mods can only be a good thing, especially with the amount of shit that's flooding the forums in recent times. So yes, more mods would be good. "
As long as any new mods are chosen because of merit, I've seen to many places die because they just mod people with high post counts who are always around.
As TheBeast mentioned above we're open to ideas and tips on where we can best address people's issues around the site. We're also well aware that a number of you are losing interest in the forum due to bad behaviour of a select few at certain times.
We're currently discussing how best to deal with these situations, one being the addition of new mods to the forum. We'll see how the discussion goes, obviously with most of us on at different hours these things take awhile :)
Absolutely. I think the current mods do a fantastic job, but there are multiple occasions where there just aren't enough online. I definitely think we need more.
I often flag comments that are pretty open trolling. One platform's fanboys going into a thread and making broad trolling statements, nothing ever happens.
If lack of moderators is the problem I say we should get more. There is way too much undue nastyness going on in the forums now.
I don't want this place to be super moderated to the point where people make a joke and get banned (GameFAQs). God forbid any mod ever ban people for their preferences either (4chan or NeoGAF). None of those forums ever got rid of fanboys or trolls either, in fact super moderation seems to make stuff worse.
What I'd like to see is mods taking a more active roll in shaping discussion, not handing out punishment.
If the flagging system stopped being so buggy things would be a lot easier to report. But then again if you just message a mod they reply fairly quickly to help whatever the problem may be.
" I made a thread expressing my opinion and i got about 10 replies of people being idiots . Yes we need more MODs "
I think it was more than 10 ^-^
There seems to be a concerted effort by quite a few members to derail a thread simply because they don't share or like a view. They are having only a destructive effect on good discussion. If I flagged everyone of these, I would run out of flags.
I think the the current mods need to be more proactive when it comes to people entering threads clearly with the intent to just derail it. Maybe they do anyway, I wouldn't know. They certainly would need a mod just to keep the dicks away from Wii threads ^-^
@natetodamax: Then they get flagged? Then they have points on the karma system? Then they can't vote? I don't know, dude. It's just an idea. Leave the debating to the moderators who are dealing with the issues, please.
" @natetodamax: Then they get flagged? Then they have points on the karma system? Then they can't vote? I don't know, dude. It's just an idea. Leave the debating to the moderators who are dealing with the issues, please. "
I wasn't debating, I was questioning your proposed method.
" @natetodamax: Then they get flagged? Then they have points on the karma system? Then they can't vote? I don't know, dude. It's just an idea. Leave the debating to the moderators who are dealing with the issues, please. "
I wasn't debating, I was questioning your proposed method. "
*sigh* Then let's leave the questioning to the moderators for when this idea is actually considered.
I think I can safely say that the proposal of a system allowing users to vote on locking a topic is not something either myself or my fellow moderators would agree with, endorse or support. The old community ratings tool was removed because it didn't work out the way we had hoped, in short the level of abuse the tool received made it pointless and negated its purpose. A tool similar to it would only result in the same outcome. Those sort of tools are rarely found on message boards for this very reason, that is why sites pick volunteers to moderate their forum.
So I'll politely ask that the discussion about it in this topic be dropped, I think I can safely say it would never happen :)
No, because the way these forums work it's just a cluster fuck of stupid, pointless question threads that don't need moderation. And any semi intelligent discussion results in a lock due to the fact that any dumb shit can sign up and start posting.
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